Patents by Inventor Osamu Kimura

Osamu Kimura has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20210004172
    Abstract: A data processing system includes a storage apparatus having a plurality of data storages and a processing control apparatus, the processing control apparatus is configured to: calculate hash information from data; and uniquely decide an arrangement destination of the data in the plurality of data storages according to the calculated hash information, and the storage apparatus is configured to: move specific data specified as a movement processing target among a plurality of pieces of stored data stored in the data storage from the arrangement destination of the specific data to a movement destination; and write information on a storage position of the specific data to the arrangement destination of the specific data after the movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: MASARU SHIMMITSU, Osamu KIMURA, Hiroshi Shiomi, Takako Kato, Yoichi YASUFUKU
  • Patent number: 10857944
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a roughness state of a road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a guide marker to be superimposed onto an image based on captured image data output from an imager that captures an image of a peripheral region including the traveling direction of the vehicle, the guide marker being displayed in a manner that follows a roughness state of the road surface in the traveling direction of the vehicle; and a controller configured to superimpose the guide marker onto the image in the display manner that follows the roughness state and display the image on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakasho, Kazuya Watanabe, Tetsuya Maruoka, Kinji Yamamoto, Takashi Hiramaki, Takuya Hashikawa, Naotaka Kubota, Osamu Kimura, Itsuko Ohashi, Yasumasa Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10819146
    Abstract: When a pulsed waveform is used to transmit power-supply power in a form of a power packet etc., a filter for reducing harmonic components is disposed on a power transmission side. A switch and a control portion for controlling ON/OFF of a function of the filter are provided to turn ON the function of the filter limitedly at each of timings t1 to t2 and t3 to t4 at which the power is transmitted. The harmonic components are reduced from the waveform of the transmission power by the function of the filter. Radiation noise generated by the wire harness is reduced in a high frequency region. The function of the filter is turned OFF at a timing at which digital information is transmitted so that a waveform of the digital information can be prevented from being deformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventor: Osamu Kimura
  • Patent number: 10793070
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus having an acquisition unit that acquires a three-dimensional model image. The three-dimensional model image indicates an irregular state of a road surface. The three-dimensional model image includes image data outputted from an imaging unit that takes a peripheral image including the road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle and includes height data that indicates heights of individual regions of the road surface represented in the peripheral image. The periphery monitoring apparatus also includes a control that superimposes an indicator of a height of the road surface based on the height data onto each region included in the acquired three-dimensional model image and displays the three-dimensional model image on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Watanabe, Yoji Inui, Kinji Yamamoto, Takashi Hiramaki, Takuya Hashikawa, Tetsuya Maruoka, Naotaka Kubota, Osamu Kimura, Itsuko Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20200031281
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a three-dimensional model image indicating an irregular state of a road surface, the three-dimensional model image including taken image data output from an imaging unit that takes a peripheral image including the road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle and including height data that indicates heights of individual regions of the road surface represented in the peripheral image; and a control unit configured to superimpose an indicator indicating a height of the road surface based on the height data onto each region included in the acquired three-dimensional model image and display the three-dimensional model image on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200035207
    Abstract: A display control apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire predetermined data and imaged image data from an imaging unit that images a periphery of a vehicle; a storage unit configured to store therein vehicle shape data expressing a three-dimensional shape of the vehicle; and a display processor configured to switch transparency of the vehicle shape data based on the predetermined data when the vehicle shape data is superimposed and displayed on display data expressing the periphery of the vehicle based on the imaged image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya MARUOKA, Itsuko OHASHI, Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20200031283
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a roughness state of a road surface in a traveling direction of a vehicle; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a guide marker to be superimposed onto an image based on captured image data output from an imager that captures an image of a peripheral region including the traveling direction of the vehicle, the guide marker being displayed in a manner that follows a roughness state of the road surface in the traveling direction of the vehicle; and a controller configured to superimpose the guide marker onto the image in the display manner that follows the roughness state and display the image on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki NAKASHO, Kazuya WATANBE, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI, Yasumasa YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10495458
    Abstract: An image processing system for a vehicle includes: a viewpoint image generating unit that generates a viewpoint image viewed from a predetermined virtual viewpoint when assumed that a surrounding image corresponding to surrounding image data is projected on a virtual projection plane whose arrangement position has been set in advance, based on inclination information corresponding to an inclination of the vehicle and the surrounding image data obtained by capturing an image of a periphery of the vehicle; and an output image generating unit that generates and outputs output image data in order to cause a display device to display an output image in which an own vehicle model image having an inclination according to an inclination of the vehicle corresponding to the inclination information is superimposed on the viewpoint image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotaka Kubota, Tetsuya Maruoka, Yoji Inui, Takashi Hiramaki, Osamu Kimura, Itsuko Ohashi
  • Publication number: 20190288552
    Abstract: When a pulsed waveform is used to transmit power-supply power in a form of a power packet etc., a filter for reducing harmonic components is disposed on a power transmission side. A switch and a control portion for controlling ON/OFF of a function of the filter are provided to turn ON the function of the filter limitedly at each of timings t1 to t2 and t3 to t4 at which the power is transmitted. The harmonic components are reduced from the waveform of the transmission power by the function of the filter. Radiation noise generated by the wire harness is reduced in a high frequency region. The function of the filter is turned OFF at a timing at which digital information is transmitted so that a waveform of the digital information can be prevented from being deformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventor: Osamu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20190244324
    Abstract: A display control device according to an embodiment includes an acquirer configured to acquire image data from an imager to image surroundings of a vehicle, storage that stores therein vehicle-shape data representing a three-dimensional shape of the vehicle, and a display processor configured to display a certain region of the vehicle-shape data at transmittance different from transmittance of another region, when superimposing, for display, the vehicle-shape data on display data which is based on the image data and represents the surroundings of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko FUKUSHIMA
  • Patent number: 10363888
    Abstract: A wire harness to be installed in a vehicle includes an electric wire and a protective tube that protects the electric wire. The electric wire is provided at the lower part of a vehicle body of the vehicle and the protective tube covers the electric wire and includes ferromagnetic materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu Kimura, Yoshinori Matsushita, Yasuhiro Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10318212
    Abstract: A control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a write request to write content data. The processor is configured to divide the content data into leading first data and subsequent second data. The processor is configured to write the first data to a first storage resource in a first storage group among a plurality of storage groups having operating rates different from each other. The first storage group has a first operating rate higher than operating rates of any other storage groups. The processor is configured to write the second data to a second storage resource in a second storage group. The second storage group has a second operating rate lower than the first operating rate. The processor is configured to activate, in parallel with the writing of the first data, the second storage resource when the second storage resource is in a non-operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Masaru Shimmitsu, Mikio Ito, Osamu Kimura
  • Patent number: 10128651
    Abstract: An inrush current inhibiting circuit is to inhibit an inrush current flowing to a load which includes an input capacitor and a pair of output terminals. The inrush current inhibiting circuit is provided with a switching element connected to the power source and on-off controlled, a first inductor connected between the switching element and a connecting point between the one output terminal and one electrode of the input capacitor, a diode whose cathode is connected to a connecting point between the switching element and the first inductor, a second inductor connected between an anode of the diode and a connecting point between the other electrode of the input capacitor and the other output terminal, and a control part for controlling the switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Matsushita, Osamu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180253106
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring device includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a first image in which a first connection device provided in a vehicle and a second connection device provided in a towed vehicle are captured; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire height information of the second connection device; and a guidance controller configured to calculate a positional relationship between the first connection device and the second connection device based on a display position of the second connection device in the first image and the height information, calculate a path of the vehicle until the first connection device and the second connection device are connected to each other based on the positional relationship, and to guide the vehicle along the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoji INUI, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Kazuya WATANABE, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Itsuko FUKUSHIMA, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Osamu KIMURA
  • Publication number: 20180089907
    Abstract: A periphery monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires an image indicating a peripheral environment of a vehicle and information corresponding to a state of the vehicle, the image being captured by an imaging device that is provided in the vehicle; a memory that stores a vehicle model that indicates a three-dimensional shape of the vehicle; a processing unit that processes the vehicle model based on the information; and an output unit that superimposes the vehicle model processed by the processing unit on a position within the image indicating the peripheral environment corresponding to a position within the peripheral environment where the vehicle is present, and displays the image indicating the peripheral environment and having the vehicle model superimposed thereon on a display screen that is provided in a vehicle compartment of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuya MARUOKA, Kazuya WATANABE, Yoji INUI, Kinji YAMAMOTO, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Takuya HASHIKAWA, Naotaka KUBOTA, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI
  • Patent number: 9923474
    Abstract: A power supply apparatus includes a primary-side circuit and a secondary-side circuit magnetically coupled by a transformer. The secondary-side circuit includes: a first circuit that is connected to a secondary winding of the transformer, performs current doubler rectification, and outputs a first output voltage; a second circuit that is connected to the secondary winding of the transformer, performs a step-down chopping operation, and outputs a second output voltage; semiconductor switching elements that control the step-down chopping operation; and diodes that are shared by the first circuit and the second circuit when rectifying a direct current voltage supplied from the primary-side circuit. The first circuit includes first inductors connected in parallel. A control unit controls switching of the primary-side circuit to establish electrical continuity between the secondary winding of the transformer and the first inductors in order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Matsushita, Osamu Kimura
  • Publication number: 20180066941
    Abstract: An image processing system for a vehicle includes: a viewpoint image generating unit that generates a viewpoint image viewed from a predetermined virtual viewpoint when assumed that a surrounding image corresponding to surrounding image data is projected on a virtual projection plane whose arrangement position has been set in advance, based on inclination information corresponding to an inclination of the vehicle and the surrounding image data obtained by capturing an image of a periphery of the vehicle; and an output image generating unit that generates and outputs output image data in order to cause a display device to display an output image in which an own vehicle model image having an inclination according to an inclination of the vehicle corresponding to the inclination information is superimposed on the viewpoint image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: AISIN SEIKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naotaka KUBOTA, Tetsuya MARUOKA, Yoji INUI, Takashi HIRAMAKI, Osamu KIMURA, Itsuko OHASHI
  • Patent number: 9806520
    Abstract: A current command value in a period from a time when a relay switch is turned on until charging of an inverter capacitor is completed is set to a value smaller than a value corresponding to the smallest one of rated currents of components included in a circuit, and is set to a value smaller than a maximum current value in a safe operating area of a switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignees: Yazaki Corporation, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventors: Osamu Kimura, Tsutomu Yatsuo, Yasunori Tanaka
  • Publication number: 20170186572
    Abstract: A service plug is capable of being inserted and pulled into and out of a plug receiving unit disposed on a power supply path which connects a battery and a load. The service plug includes: a first terminal connected to a battery-side power supply path in a state that the service plug is inserted in the plug receiving unit; a second terminal connected to a load-side power supply path in the state that the service plug is inserted in the plug receiving unit; and a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device is disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal, and permits or prohibits conduction between the first terminal and the second terminal in response to control of turning on and off of the semiconductor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroteru KATO, Osamu KIMURA
  • Patent number: 9686394
    Abstract: A mobile device that makes it possible to prevent a person other than a user from being aware of information relating to a predetermined communication while also enabling the user to immediately be aware of the information relating to the predetermined communication. The mobile device includes a status determining section (41) for determining, in a case where a communication is received, whether or not the mobile device is being left unattended; and an output control section (42) for outputting predetermined received communication information in a case where the mobile device is not being left unattended, the output control section (42) skipping output of the predetermined received communication information in a case where the mobile device is being left unattended.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Osamu Kimura